Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Marked Mates by Erin M. Leaf

When
Sparrow Martin dreams about President Morgan Wilde, she thinks she's
going crazy. Ordinary people like her don't bond with the President,
right? But when she dreams about a second man along with Morgan, she
knows she needs to find her bond-mates or risk losing her mind.

Morgan
knows he's bonding, but he has no idea what to do about it. One of the
people he's dreaming about is a man whose face he can't even see. As
President, his responsibility is to his country, not his own desires. Of
course, when Sparrow shows up during a White House tour, he discovers
dreams can't be denied.

Justin
Boyd is working on a secret project and he doesn't have time to figure
out what's wrong with him. He's been sleeping badly for months, but he
doesn't have any of the signs of bonding: no wrist tattoos, no
headaches. So why do two people haunt his dreams, night after night?

Sparrow
rubbed her temples tiredly. She thought coming here would make her feel
better, not worse. She’d be able to visit, gawk a little like every
other tourist, and then, voila! She’d be over her ridiculous crush on
Morgan Wilde.

Because
there is no way, no freaking way, I’m bonding with the president of the
United States. That’s just impossible, right? she told herself, stomach
churning. Who would believe her, even if it were true? Certainly not
the man in her dreams. Morgan Wilde didn’t even know she existed.

She
thought back to last night. In the dream, Morgan’s face had been so
familiar to her, she wasn’t even surprised anymore to find him haunting
her so often. They were always in a car, driving somewhere in the dark.
In every dream, he’d kiss her, and she’d feel as though her entire body
was on fire. Months of these stupid dreams had made her dread going to
sleep, not sure if he would appear again. Not sure if she wanted him to appear. And
then, last night, another man comes into the dream like so much
smoke—thick and disturbing and impossible to ignore. What does that
mean? She had no idea who he was. That she was here, in the White
House, in pursuit of a dream was insanity enough without adding a second
man into the equation.

“Sparrow!” Mary hissed suddenly.

Sparrow
jerked her head up. Mary’s face had gone white. She looked around, but
didn’t see anything wrong. The other tourists were milling around,
waiting to be admitted into the main part of the building.

Sparrow’s
heart gave a sick, hard thump. The faintest outline of a tattoo was
delicately etched on her skin. She couldn’t quite make it out yet, but
there were definitely three circles. They looked like bruises. She
snatched her hand away from Mary. “It’s nothing.” It had to be nothing. Otherwise, all those nights…no, she wasn’t crazy. She wasn’t bonding.

Mary narrowed her eyes. “Has this happened before?”

Sparrow shook her head. “I probably just banged it against the sink or something.”

Without warning, Mary seized her other wrist and held it up.

Sparrow
froze. Three circles. Faintly outlined on her skin, same as her other
wrist. She sucked in a harsh breath and clenched her fist. Impossible.
“What’s happening to me?”

Mary
grabbed her arm and hustled her to the corner, near the windows. There
were still people all around, but at least they had a little more
privacy here.

“You need to find your mate.” Mary grasped Sparrow’s hands and lightly touched a thumb to one of the circles. “Or mates. You need to, or you’re going to get very sick, from what I’ve read.”

Sparrow
shook her head. “Mates? That’s insane.” She couldn’t think about this
here. She couldn’t think about it at all without wanting to run away.

Mary squeezed her fingers tighter, making Sparrow wince. “Maybe. But you told me you dreamed about two men last night. Two.”

Sparrow
pulled away and folded her arms around her waist so that her wrists
were hidden. She really didn’t feel well. “What do you think I’m doing
here, Mary?”

Her friend stared at her. “Holy fucking shit.”

Sparrow
snorted. “Yeah. Exactly.” She thunked her head on the glass. It only
made her headache worse. At this point, she felt like she was seeing
everything through a filter of white noise. All the low voices around
her were just static. God. She rubbed her forehead, trying to will the
ache away. She hoped she wasn’t about to faint. Or throw up. That would
be mortifying.

“What are we going to do?” Mary asked. She stepped away and started to pace. “It’s not like you can just waltz right in—”

“Excuse me,” a young man interrupted Mary’s low-voiced murmur. “Could you both please come with me?”

Sparrow
straightened up. The man wore the standard Secret Service uniform that
all the guides in the White House sported. She wasn’t sure what he
wanted, but no one else was paying any attention to them.

“Is
there a problem?” she asked, swallowing against the rising nausea. If
she didn’t get a chance to sit down soon, she was pretty sure she was
going to be very, very sick right on the very shiny floor.

“There’s
no problem, ma’am. I’ve just been asked to escort you to a private
area,” he said. “If you would come with me?” He stepped back and held
out his arm.

Sparrow glanced at Mary, who shrugged, then lifted an eyebrow as if to say: isn’t this what you wanted?

“Okay,” Sparrow said. “Lead the way.”

The
young man smiled politely and led them down the hall to a door hidden
behind a tall plant. None of the other tourists paid them any attention.
Sparrow frowned. How had she not noticed that door before? It wasn’t
exactly hidden, but it wasn’t obvious, either.

“Where are we going?” she asked, following him.

“This way,” the man said, opening the door into a private garden courtyard that Sparrow had no idea even existed.

This isn’t on any of the public floor plans.
She stumbled, still fighting her monstrous headache, but caught herself
before she fell. The smell of flowers wafted across her face.

“Sparrow? Are you okay?” Mary asked, putting a hand on her arm.

Sparrow
tensed. Her friend’s hand actually hurt. She shrugged it off, trying
not to show how completely fucking freaked out she was.

What’s wrong with me? Is this what bonding feels like? If so, it sucks.
She’d suspected she was bonding for a long time now, at least on some
level, but she hadn’t expected to feel this wretched. And she still
refused to believe that Morgan Wilde, president, was her bond mate. Or one of them, she thought very privately to herself.

Adult Excerpt:

Morgan
ripped open his shirt, buttons flying. Sparrow reached out, then forced
her hand back down. If she touched him now it would be all over, and
she wanted Justin, too. She didn’t want to make love without him again.
Now that they’d figured out why their bonding was so screwed up, she
didn’t want to take any chances.

“Hurry,” she said, instead of touching him.

Morgan
fumbled with his pants. His erection sprang out and Sparrow trembled.
His cock was thick and dusky and perfect. She hadn’t had time before to
really look at him before. They’d screwed on the table, still mostly
clothed, because the bonding heat demanded it from them. She wanted
more. His well-muscled chest looked like something out of a magazine.
His hair was mussed, but she didn’t care.

He
shoved his pants down. When he straightened up, she stepped back. She
could hear the water in the shower shut off. Morgan’s blue eyes gleamed
and then Justin stepped out of the bathroom, naked and wet.

Morgan
swallowed hard. Sparrow looked at their bond-mate, admiring the toned
perfection of his body. Her eyes landed on his erection. He was just as
aroused as Morgan. His cock arched up against his abdomen, wet at the
tip. When he reached down and palmed himself, she groaned.

Morgan
sighed. “Same here. It doesn’t matter anymore. If I don’t touch you in
the next ten seconds, I think I’m going to lose my damn mind.”

Sparrow agreed. “Yeah, what he said.”

“I’m not going to last,” Justin said in a strained tone of voice.

“Get on the bed,” Morgan said.

Sparrow
didn’t know if he was talking to her or Justin, but she obeyed anyway.
She backed toward the bed until her knees bumped the mattress. Justin
came closer, hand still on his erection.

“Suck him,” Morgan commanded.

Sparrow’s
entire body went white-hot. There was something so ridiculously sexy
listening to Morgan giving orders. The president just told me to suck a
man’s cock, she thought, burning up. She glanced up at him to find him
also holding his erection. The shaft pushed out from between his fingers
and she realized he was squeezing to hold off his climax. God, he’s hot.
She sunk fingers into her pussy, unable to stop herself. She touched
her clit, arching her back as sparks of pleasure shot through her.

“Fuck,” Justin said, watching her.

“Come closer,” Morgan said to Justin.

Their
bond-mate nodded and moved between her legs. She licked her lips and
leaned in. Justin aimed his prick at her mouth and she opened up.

We’ve
never even kissed, she thought vaguely. It didn’t matter. He fed his
erection into her mouth and she moaned as the warmth of him penetrated.
He tasted good, sweet and musky, and he smelled like vanilla.

“God,” Morgan murmured.

Justin
gasped as she used her tongue on him, then he eased out. Morgan took
his place, carefully laying the tip of his cock on her lips. She licked
him and he shuddered.

“So
fucking hot,” Justin said, moving close again. His cock bumped Morgan’s
and both men groaned. Justin waited until Morgan slid out of her mouth,
and then he slid in. She sucked him, enjoying his pleasure. The bond
was flaring inside the three of them, so that each one felt the others’
pleasure. When Sparrow licked her men, she felt it in her cunt, hot and
decadent.

I’m going to explode.
She reached up to hold both men in her hands. She began alternating
between the two cocks, holding them close so that all she had to do was
move her head a little. She sucked and licked until Justin started
trembling so hard she was afraid she would catch him on her teeth if he
had to stay upright much longer.

“Fuck me,” Sparrow said, urging him onto the bed.

The
men looked at her, then at each other. The next thing she knew, Morgan
was rummaging in the nightstand and Justin was pushing her up the bed.
He rolled onto his back and hauled her on top.

“We’ll take it slow,” he said, kissing her.

She
laughed into his mouth as his words penetrated her lust-hazed mind. “I
don’t think slow is really an option.” Behind them, she heard the rip of
plastic. A condom? But I told him about my implant, she thought,
remembering their earlier bout of sex on the table, but then Justin ran
his hands down her back and she forgot her confusion.

“Too bad,” he murmured against her lips, hands still stroking her spine. “I like it slow.”

“I’m in the mood for fast,” she said, smiling. She sank her hands into his messy hair, leaning her weight on her elbows.

He kissed her—probably to shut me up—and then she gasped as Morgan slid in behind them. His cock slotted up between her ass cheeks, hot and wet.

“God,”
she said, gasping and arching away from Justin’s mouth. Justin grabbed
her head and forced her back down, kissing along her jaw while Morgan
rubbed his dick against her asshole.

Oh. That’s what they meant about taking it slow. And why he needed a condom. She felt stupid and blurry, just now understanding that they meant to fuck her at the same time.

Author Details:

Erin
M. Leaf is a romance novel devotee, the steamier the better, with a
specialty in edgy erotic tension. She also writes romance as Marie E.
Blossom.